[Closed] Naming a house?

dunroamin?

Housie McHouse face?

Or for added cheese factor - name of road plus cottage. Works better if your house is definitely not a cottage

Bob

Trumpy Towers

Louise

Haw

Uckem Hall

Theres only really a function for a name if you're not on a numbered street. Living in a named property myself your address is something you use more and more for payment and delivery - the novelty of a house name soon wears off when you keep having to spell it over the phone.

However - why not use the registration number from your car - naming the house is free but now it'll look like you've paid for expensive vanity plates

Offhand Manor

I lived in my house for 10 years before I discovered it had a name.

It was built before street numbering was a thing but was subsequently numbered in the sixties.

I keep meaning to get a nampelate made up but, 10 years later I still haven't got round to it.

Oor? as in "Oor House"

Gumdrop Cottage

What perchy said, mine's old enough to have had a name originally, still haven't got round to getting a plate made up for it though...

Is yours on a street/likely to be on a street, in which case pick a number that will bugger up the street numbering in the future 😈

Thoughts?

a first thought should be - contact the council- they often have rules about it.

Anyway,

'Cuesta Verde'

Is yours on a street/likely to be on a street, in which case pick a number that will bugger up the street numbering in the future

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The house is in Malvern and we have a lovely view of the Hills.
Was thinking of Moel-Bryn as that's the old English/Welsh name for Malvern..

You can’t just name a house. The local authority is responsible for street name and number under various Public Health Acts, so you need to go through them (they’ll have a Street Name & Numbering Officer). Land Registry will often check with SNN Officer if their address differs to the national land and property gazetteer (NLPG), which every local authority feeds in to.

Farkham Hall ?

If the house has a number, you can call it what you want e.g. Housey McHouseface, 69 Knob Rd or whatever. If it isn't numbered, you may find your choice is limited.
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What address do the Post Office etc use?

I'd stick with that if you ever want to receive a parcel again.

Martin.

House names are like private 'cherished' plates, just about acceptable if someone buys you one, or in this case if the house was named beforehand, tacky as **** otherwise.

Dave Hodges.

It needs a surname too.

But not yours as as some point you'll get divorced and both you and the house will go separate ways.

Dave Hodges Lodges?

Although the property isn't registered with Land Registry, presumably someone's been living in it, and paying bills there, therefore it will have a registered address.

If it's numbered onto an existing street, you can just give it a name and start using it, but you have to use it in conjunction with the number as that will always be the primary address. Over time Royal Mail will pick it up and it'll get onto the relevant databases/records as an alias, including PAF (Postcode Address File) and probably LLPG/NLPG.

If it's just named, then you can apply to the Local Authority to change the name, they usually charge a nominal admin fee (£25 in my authority I think) to carry this out. They will consult with relevant third parties over the name (to assess suitability and to avoid duplication) and ultimately notify all relevant parties, including Land Registry, Royal Mail, emergency services etc. updating PAF, LLPG & NLPG also.

Used to carry out the SNN function..........

Word of advice - don't use a combination of your name(s) in the name at all, not for techincal reasons, it's just f**g ridiculous.

I know of a 'Silkwood', 'Su-Garry' and just yesterday drove by 'Ross'Leigh Manor'. Fwits.

Although the property isn't registered with Land Registry, presumably someone's been living in it, and paying bills there, therefore it will have a registered address.

My flat ( 80s conversion in a 1870s building) did not have a registed address when I moved in in 1992 - or certainly there was no entry for it on the address database. I had to get it added to the database as companies refused to accept there was a flat there as it didn't appear in their lists

Sea/Bay/Harbour View would be a great name for a house in the midlands. Do that.

The Cottage Inn?

I was about say if you live in Wales.. call it something Scottish or perhaps if you live in West London call it something Jewish.

Just stick with the number and street.

Our house was officially given a made up name that was way too Hobbity and twee. Pain in the arse to transfer it all back to a normal address.

Moel-Bryn

Yep, you're not going to end up constantly spelling that out to any one delivering, etc to you 🙂

New build? Find out what used to be there and name it after that? The irony of finding Oak Sodding Cottage (No 7) in a housing estate built on what was previously 1000 year old beech woodland made me chunder.

Some suggestions from Alan....

Our house has a name - and a number (get us and our fancy ways).

The house name is never used, as it requires local knowledge to understand where to deliver a parcel to.
We just use the house number...

If you're thinking of using Welsh anyway, can I suggest 'Ty Ni'?

Our house in Ireland has no name or street number and postcodes have only been introduced in the last couple of years so no one uses them, we pretty much have to rely on the postman knowing us or giving detailed directions and finish with " ...if you get lost ask anyone for kitty and Dennis's old house"

A word of caution.

I used to work for British Gas way back when, I’ve worked in Banking and now my job involves dealing with logistics a bit.

I would personally take whatever address is in common use now, out you will be mildly irritated to majorly put out for the rest of your time there. It has more of an impact than you might think for untilties, start messing with the address and you’ll never get a internet connection in easily, you’ll have a nightmare with utilities and you’ll end up with a fractured and messy credit history which will likely knock you out of every automated underwriting system on earth.

If you want to name it, go right ahead - choose a name, buy a plaque, screw it to the wall by the door, but if you want to stay sane, but the number on it too.

Good comment P, makes sense 🙂

Word of advice - don't use a combination of your name(s) in the name at all, not for techincal reasons, it's just f*****g ridiculous.

Which is exactly how my grandparents bungalow got named "Gaylands"

Stuck up close I lived in for a short time, all had names instead of numbers causing pain to delivery co's etc - it wasn't until I received the council tax bill that I found out the houses were actually numbered - would have painted the number right across the garage door if it had been my house.

All the houses in our road have names not numbers. Delivery people etc. are always cruising up and down looking for a particular address. If you've got a number stick with that.

Also, when filling in any on-line things that automatically find an address based on a postcode can also be difficult.

There is a house near my work called Gasworks View (has a number too). How I laughed early this year when the gasworks were demolished.

I moved into my house (in north Essex) a few years ago. It's called Drofli. A mysteriously Welsh sounding name, for Essex.

It took a few weeks to realise it's Ilford, backwards ??

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